From: Mike N. 

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:54:58 +1200, black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills) wrote:

>Google have (well, I hope) a proper backup and disaster plan running.
>That being the case, the data is safer with them than on the overwhelming
>majority of home PCs.

   While I haven't read their terms of service, I wouldn't be surprised if
it states only a best effort attempt to retain the data. Like many smaller
free webmail services, they could theoretically go out of business or
retract the service at any time (although it isn't likely).

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